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Permalink Reply by QueenMother on June 27, 2008 at 5:27pm

Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!! You woke my passive butt up!!!! Very inspirational!!!

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Permalink Reply by LaShanda Henry on June 27, 2008 at 8:10pm

Lol, make it happen ... :)

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Permalink Reply by Teresa on June 27, 2008 at 6:01pm

Hi Lashanda,

Thank You for sharing. I have implemented a lot of things based on your posts. For example, I have a travel blog - to bring visibility to my blog, I have joined Blogher and Digg. I blog at least 2 times a week, trying to get to 3 times a week. The next thing I need to focus on is the keywords that I use for my Blogs and building relationships with other bloggers in a similar industry. I just implemented analytics code from google on my Blog site to determine the amount of traffic I'm getting.

Just wanted to let you know, I love the work and webwomen audio information. Thank You for sharing your knowledge!

-Teresa

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Permalink Reply by LaShanda Henry on June 27, 2008 at 8:09pm

Go Teresa! That's great!

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Permalink Reply by Carletta D. Washington, Ed.S. on June 27, 2008 at 6:42pm

Hey LaShanda:

I love what you had to say. Here are answers to the questions that were posed. Because my organization focuses on Education, I review education web sites on a regular basis. (1) When I see a major "shift" in design, I adopt a similar design so that my site looks as professional and modern as the sites of others in my field. (2) I added "gift" and "events" pages to so that I can promote our merchandise and events; these are also convenient features for many of those interested in purchasing items and/or keeping up with us. (3) I joined BBO and other links/groups so that those outside of my "regular" visitors could become exposed to what we have to offer. (4) I am researching podcasting/streaming, blogs, and other methods to help incorporate additional communications embedded into my web site for the more "techno savvy" and interactive visitors.

These are tips that I think will help others as well.

Thanks again for posing the question. I'm interested in getting more info. about my #4 response for you and/or any of your group members.

Carletta/Education 4 All

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Permalink Reply by LaShanda Henry on June 27, 2008 at 8:25pm

You are definitely doing your thing Carletta, staying current and aware of the latest technology is crucial.

With respect to your 4th comment, I just added a podcast on blogging. As far as podcasting, I got my inspiration from an amazing sista who is the queen of podcasting for profit - Leesa Barnes. Look her up and check out her blog, for tips.

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Permalink Reply by Stacey on June 27, 2008 at 7:17pm

Hi Lashanda -

I can totally relate to this topic on driving traffic to my site. When I first started out about 4 years ago I had no clue how to get people to my site so I started out by doing a click campaign which became extremely expensive. I then took the approach of doing ad banners on sites that had a lot of traffic that had a similar audience to what I was selling or promoting. Once I did this my sales took off. I then started seeking out all types of websites that had a lot of traffic of African American women and placing ads with those sites. Then I found as many black directories that were either free or had a small fee to post my listing. This really helped my sales and took my unique visitors up from 200 - 300 a month to in the thousands. Even though I had done this I still wasn't ranking in the search engines like I wanted so I did a little research and happened up on this e-book that was geared at getting top ranking over your competitors. I set a goal that I wanted to rank over my biggest competitor by the end of the year. I optimized all of my pages on my site, made a spread sheet of where I was currently ranking for a specific search phrase so I could keep track of my progress. I did the optimizing in late November 2007 and at that time was wasn't raking any where in the top 15 or 20 pages. By March and April 2008 I started ranking in the top three pages for 9 out of 12 of my top search phrases. Since then my unique visitors are just about around 10,000 a month which I consider awesome seeing how I was only receiving about 1000 this time last year.

Stacey
Sizta 2 Sizta Healthy Hair Care Co.
www.sizta2sizta.com

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Permalink Reply by LaShanda Henry on June 27, 2008 at 8:27pm

Stacey, I feel like your story is a great example of what anyone can accomplish once you step away from the computer, set some realistic goals and work on making it happen. I did the same thing, at some point I had to figure out what my page rank was, who my competitors were, and use their success as both motivation and a framework for me to build my site.

Kudos to you, I have worked with you in the past and I know that you've worked hard to make yourself visible online.

-lh

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Permalink Reply by Michele Dugar on July 1, 2008 at 8:41am

That is awesome Stacey! It is inspiring to witness your progress. I'm sure it will help motivate others.
- Michele

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Permalink Reply by Michele Dugar on July 1, 2008 at 8:43am

What was the e-book that helped you?

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Permalink Reply by Stacey on July 1, 2008 at 9:01am

I will find the name and post so others can also benefit

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Permalink Reply by Kimberli Nelson on July 14, 2008 at 5:23pm

This is a great question as I am working on Search Engine Optimization. Things are finally coming together as people are now searching now that Zappos and other shoe retailers have run out of stock in certain items. I signed up for Yahoo Marketing and waiting for results to come in at the end of the month.

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